Create missing chromiumProfile directory before launching Chrome

[aleclarson]

Describe the bug

When webExt.chromiumProfile points to a directory that does not yet exist and keepProfileChanges: true, wxt dev fails before Chromium launches with an ENOENT for chrome-out.log.

This is especially surprising because the persistent profile documentation says the profile will be created on the next development run.

Reproduction

Use a project-local profile path that does not exist yet:

import { resolve } from 'node:path';
import { defineConfig } from 'wxt';

export default defineConfig({
  webExt: {
    chromiumProfile: resolve('.wxt/chrome-data'),
    keepProfileChanges: true,
  },
});

Then run:

wxt dev

Actual behavior

The process fails with an error like:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open
'.../.wxt/chrome-data/chrome-out.log'

The failure originates in chrome-launcher while preparing the launch.

Expected behavior

The configured Chromium user-data directory should be created before the browser is launched, and the first wxt dev run should succeed.

Suspected cause

In WXT 0.21.1, the web-ext runner forwards chromiumProfile and keepProfileChanges, but does not forward web-ext's profileCreateIfMissing option:

• WXT web-ext runner
• web-ext profile creation only runs when profileCreateIfMissing is enabled
• chrome-launcher preparation opens chrome-out.log without creating a supplied user-data directory first

Could WXT either enable/forward profileCreateIfMissing for an explicitly configured persistent profile, or create the directory before invoking web-ext?

Environment

• WXT: 0.21.1
• web-ext: 10.6.0
• chrome-launcher: 1.2.0
• macOS

[conorzhong]

I just manually created a "chrome-data" folder within the .wxt folder, which temporarily resolved the issue.